Path traversal vulnerability in WinRAR_CVE-2025-8088

8.4 / 10

HIGH

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Description

A path traversal vulnerability affecting the Windows version of WinRAR allows the attackers to execute arbitrary code by crafting malicious archive files. This vulnerability was exploited in the wild and was discovered by Anton Cherepanov, Peter Košinár, and Peter Strýček
from ESET.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-8088

Source ESET

Published Aug 8, 2025 at 11:11

Affected Product

Vendor win.rar GmbH

Product WinRAR

Affected Versions win.rar GmbH WinRAR 0

CWE Classification

CWE-35

References

www.win-rar.com /singlenewsview.html

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